October 29, 2009

McGwire Is Great Business for Media

Bernie Miklasz, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Mark McGwire's baseball comeback is providing abundant fodder for the media. He's filling newspaper columns, blogs, Internet forums, sports-talk radio segments and prime blocks of TV news.

It's all McGwire, all of the time.

It's almost as if we've returned to 1998.

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TAGGED: Mark McGwire, mlb, St. Louis Cardinals

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